Spiritual Fitness

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A CHILD’S FAITH Helen Steiner Rice

“Jesus loves me, this I knowFor the Bible tells me so.” Little children ask no more,For love is all they’re looking for,And in a small child’s shining eyesThe Faith of all the ages lies.And tiny hands and tousled headsThat kneel in prayer by little bedsAre closer to the dear Lord’s heartAnd of His kingdom more a partThan we who search, and never findThe answer to our questioning mind.For Faith in things we cannot seeRequires a child’s simplicityFor, lost in life’s complexities,We drift upon uncharted seasAnd slowly Faith disintegratesWhile wealth and power accumulate.And the more man learns, the less he knows,And the more involved his thinking growsAnd, in his arrogance and pride,No longer is man satisfiedTo place his confidence and loveWith childlike Faith in God above.Oh, Father grant once more to menA simple childlike Faith again.And, with a small child’s trusting eyesMay all men come to realizeThat Faith alone can save man’s soulAnd lead him to a Higher Goal.

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Modern Christians hope to
save the world by being like it, but it will never work. The Church's power
over the world springs out of her unlikeness to it, never from her integration
into it.~ A.W. Tozer